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Top White HouseOpens a New Window. officials are considering a temporary payroll tax cutOpens a New Window. to boost the U.S. economy amid mounting concerns about a possible economic downturn, according to multiple reports on Monday. Internal talks on a payroll tax cut are in their early stages Monday and are one of several potential measures under consideration, the Washington PostOpens a New Window. reported, citing three sources familiar with the matter. White House aides have yet to determine whether to push Congress for approval. “As [National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow] said yesterday, more tax cuts for the American...

Full Headline: Jill Biden tells voters to pick husband: 'Your candidate may be better' on some policies, but 'we have to beat Trump' SNIP "I know that not all of you are committed to my husband, and I respect that, but I want you to think about your candidate, his or her electability, and who’s going to win this race," Jill Biden said at a campaign event in Manchester, N.H., according to video from NBC. "I know my goal is to beat Donald Trump, we have to have someone who can beat him. So if you look at the polls,...

Meh, whatever. The only former Trump cabinet officials this guy’s talking to are the voices inside his own h— [record scratch] Anthony Scaramucci dined with the former U.S ambassador Nikki Haley ten days before publicly withdrawing his support from Donald Trump and warning Republicans the president ‘eventually turns on everyone’. The former White House aide, 55, was seen ‘in deep discussion’ with Ms Haley at a Harlem restaurant just over a week before he suggested the Republican Party had better find another leader for the 2020 elections…The pair’s sighting, which was reported by Page Six today, comes after the...

According to Twitter and Facebook, the Chinese government ran a social media campaign aimed at protesters in Hong Kong. Both companies announced they had removed fake accounts from their platforms Monday morning. Twitter said it had removed nearly 1,000 fake accounts: This disclosure consists of 936 accounts originating from within the PeopleÂ’s Republic of China (PRC). Overall, these accounts were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in Hong Kong, including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground. Based on our intensive investigations, we have reliable evidence to support that this is...

Antifa has threatened to burn down a New Jersey theater hosting a debate on political violence, according a statement by the event organizers. The far-left extremists also hacked the theater’s official Twitter account, promising to occupy it until it cancels the event. The discussion, titled “Ending Racism, Violence and Authoritarianism,” was organized by the free speech friendly social network Minds.com, and features a range of liberal, libertarian, and conservative speakers including journalist Andy Ngo, who was brutally attacked and hospitalized by Antifa in Portland earlier this year. Other speakers include British YouTuber and recent political candidate Carl Benjamin, independent journalist...

Democrat Rep. Debra Haaland (NM) proclaimed on Sunday that far-left extremist group Antifa consists of "peaceful protesters" who are just trying to protect Portland from "domestic terrorism." ... "It's not surprising that Trump would side away from the folks who are the peaceful protesters working to safeguard their city from domestic terrorism," Haaland continued. "Just not surprised at all that the president sides with the white nationalists. That's been his mode of operation since before he was elected president." Haaland seemed unaware of the fact that a self-described member of Antifa carried out a domestic terror attack against an ICE...

A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-backed American foundation has been colluding with the heads of the recent Hong Kong riots with financial and strategic support, actions that Chinese experts said show the US’ intention of “Americanization” which is endangering Hong Kong. Sentaku, a Japanese monthly magazine, revealed in August how the foreign forces represented by the US, manipulate the Hong Kong chaos. The magazine said that Hong Kong extremists received significant funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which it called “a CIA soft-power cutout that has played a critical role in innumerable US regime-change operations.” Under the Reagan administration...

7 priests, over 100 Catholics pray outside Satanic ‘black mass’ in Ottawa OTTAWA, August 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Seven priests and over 120 Catholics prayed outside heavy metal bar The Koven Saturday night as a Satanic black mass took place inside. The Catholics met on the steps of Notre Dame Cathedral, about a five-minute walk from The Koven, where Ottawa’s Archbishop Terrence Prendergast and Auxiliary Bishop Guy Desrochers of Cornwall blessed them before they set out on their vigil, as reported in Catholicnewsworld. A number of people, other priests, and members of the Sisters of the Queenship of Mary...

A. Gould: How did you first set out to be an iconographer? What led to this decision, and what was your initial artistic training? V. Grygorenko: I began painting icons long before my conversion to Christianity, which happened back in 1991. For nine years I studied traditional oil painting in the art studio at Dnipropetrovsk State University in Ukraine, along with my studies in mechanical engineering. Even though I had a well-respected career in engineering prepared for me, I was thinking about becoming a professional artist. Before quitting my full-time job, I had to answer two important questions for myself,...

Alyssa Milano is opening up about her personal experience with abortion. The actress and activist, 46, who has been speaking out in protest as states pass restrictive abortion laws, shared her own abortion story in the latest episode of her podcast Sorry Not Sorry. Noting that one in four women in the U.S. will have the procedure by the age of 45, she revealed that she one of them — and detailed why she elected to have the procedure two times in her early 20s. “In 1993, I had two abortions,” Milano shared. “I was in love for the first...

Arrested in 2011, Hòa was an active member of the Diocese of Vinh and worked with a news agency run by Redemptorist fathers. For the regime, he is part of a group of young Catholics and Protestants engaged in activities “aimed at overthrowing the people’s government”. The prisoner of conscience still has five years to serve in prison followed by as many under house arrest.Hanoi (AsiaNews) – Relatives, friends and supporters of 45-year-old Hồ Đức Hòa (picture 1), a Catholic activist for human rights and religious freedom, have renewed their call for his release. The prisoner of conscience suffers from...

[Editor’s Note: This is part one of John Allen’s two-part series on the former papal vacation site of Les Combes d’Introd in the Val d’Aosta region of northern Italy, on the border with France and Switzerland in the Alps. Part two will appear tomorrow.]LES COMBES D’INTROD, Italy - From the beginning, Pope Francis decided he wasn’t going to spend his summers at the ornate papal residence in Castel Gandolfo in the hills outside Rome. After three consecutive years of disuse, it was announced in October 2016 that Castel Gandolfo would be turned into a museum, thereby making the pope’s absence...

US energy prices just one-third of those in Australia, along with a robust manufacturing sector stoked by President Donald Trump's policies, have prompted a $1 billion expansion of an Ohio steel mill by BlueScope. BlueScope chief executive Mr Vassella said the $1 billion expansion of the North Star mill, to be fully up and running by 2023, was the largest capital investment the steelmaker would likely ever make, and would deliver annual returns of 15 per cent-plus. He said the company had intimate knowledge of the mill because it helped build it in the first place in the mid-1990s in...

Discrimination against religious beliefs in EnglandNORWICH, England (ChurchMilitant.com) - A British bus company has been swamped by a wave of public outrage after it suspended a driver for refusing to drive a vehicle celebrating gay pride. "I am not driving this bus because it promotes homosexuality," the driver told passengers at Norwich Bus Station. He said they would have to "wait a minute" for him to swap buses. In a drive to promote gay pride, bus operator Konectbus lit up service numbers on various bus routes, including route 501, in the colors of the gay pride rainbow flag. Passenger Rebecca...

Kentucky attorney general candidate Daniel Cameron is a personable and intelligent man who has come a long way in 33 years of life. ... In a recent interview with the Courier Journal, Dawn Elliott, a Louisville political talk radio host and attorney who is also black, slammed Cameron for his support for President Donald Trump and told Cameron to “stop eating the ‘Coon Flakes’ the White House is serving.” This is disgusting, racist language to use against a good man who happens to be a black Republican. It’s really sad that in today’s world, if black men or women are...

FBI Director Christopher Wray is the biggest obstacle to transparency regarding to Justice Department inspector general report on alleged surveillance abuses, according to one Republican figure. John Sununu, the former governor of New Hampshire and White House chief of staff for President George H.W. Bush, reacted Monday to South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who said he wants "as much as possible" declassified from Inspector General Michael Horowitz's inquiry into alleged misconduct with using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "I think they should see it all because frankly there’s nothing there of substance that applies to any real intelligence process. It...

The Daily Mail published an exclusive report last week with new footage that captured Prince Andrew, or at least someone who really looked like Prince Andrew, surreptitiously speaking to a young woman at Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion in 2010. In the video, the prince is speaking to a brunette woman, before peering around the door and ducking back inside. The Daily Mail quotes a source who says it was a "chilling" thing to watch. EXCLUSIVE: Prince Andrew is pictured inside pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's $77million Manhattan mansion of depravity https://t.co/psTVdkclUy pic.twitter.com/HeFiCNVX3u— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) August 17, 2019 The prince has often been...

Kentucky Sports Radio host Matt Jones used his radio show Monday to wade into the controversy over LEX18’s decision to fire him last week, saying the campaign of Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath got him pulled from his television show last month. “I knew they had done it,” Jones said Monday morning, adding that he was reluctant to say anything publicly because he didn’t want to appear whiny. He stopped short of directly blaming McGrath for his ultimate firing on Friday, unlike an article published Sunday by online publication The Intercept that cited anonymous sources who said McGrath campaign manager...

FULL TITLE: Surrounded: Left Corners Pelosi’s Deputies, Lines Up Primaries Against Seven Democrat Committee Chairs The left side of her conference, run by the so-called “Squad” of socialist Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) is ascendant as Pelosi’s top deputies–several committee chairs–face primary challenges similar to one Ocasio-Cortez used to wipe out longtime Pelosi ally, former Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) on her path to power. In fact, at least seven of Pelosi’s top confidantes–committee chairs–potentiallly face the same fate as Crowley, as primary challengers have announced campaigns against them. One powerful Pelosi...

The prayer meeting at the small evangelical church began at 3.15pm. Some of the worshippers, including Chiu, arrived from an earlier rally at the Chinese consulate in support of Hong Kong’s protest movement. But when the 80 or so worshippers tried to leave the church at about 4.15pm they found the building surrounded by the pro-China group. Chiu said there were more than 100 protesters.